Holiday Specials on Red River Radio

Red River Radio offers a wide variety of holiday special for the season beginning the day before Thanksgiving. Programs for Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, & New Years which celebrate our diverse culture through the sacred and secular, classical, jazz, folk, world, and popular music, story telling, drama, humor, cooking, religion, philosophy, and more. Join us as we Celebrate with each other throughout this season of Joy. If an item you heard was removed and you'd like more information contact Bill Beckett at wbeckett@lsus.edu

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6:00am

Harmonia

Airs Sunday, June 21, at 6 a.m. We're celebrating Dads on this edition of Harmonia. We'll feature traditional music from Scotland, and medieval music from the region around the Rhine River. Plus a featured release of Tudor and Jacobean music by the ensembles Stile Antico and Fretwork. What does all of this have to do with fathers? Stay tuned and find out!

1:00pm

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Airs Thursday, June 18, at 1 p.m. Join the renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir as we celebrate the "Influence of a Father" through song and spoken word with selection including I Think the World Is Glorious, Home Is a Special Kind of Feeling, Early One Morning, Hush Little Baby, Fill the Word with Love, God Be with You Till We Meet Again, Morning Has Broken, Every Time I Feel the Spirit, In the Learning of My Father, and As the Dew from Heaven Distilling.

9:00pm

Memorial Day

Airs Monday, May 25, at 9 p.m. All wars are the same, it is said; only the scenery changes. And the repercussions are pretty much the same too. Over the course of five years, Adam Piore gathered the stories of the surviving members of Delta Company, a Vietnam-era paratrooper unit; Jay Allison joined him for the last two years when it turned from a book into a radio story.

2:00pm

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Airs Monday, May 25, at 2 p.m. Join us as we remember the many who have sacrificed life, limb, heart, and mind for our nation this memorial day with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They will present Pause and Remember & Quiet Heroes with selections including America the Beautiful, My Country, 'Tis of Thee, Our God Is Marching On, On This Day, This Land Is Your Land, America, the Dream Goes On, The Mansions of the Lord (from We Were Soldiers), Blades of Grass and Pure White Stones, Hymn to the Fallen, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Gently Raise the Sacred Strain, As the Dew from Heaven Distilling and more.

9:00am

Cultural, Community, Information

Airs Monday, May 25, at 9 p.m. All wars are the same, it is said; only the scenery changes. And the repercussions are pretty much the same too. Over the course of five years, Adam Piore gathered the stories of the surviving members of Delta Company, a Vietnam-era paratrooper unit; Jay Allison joined him for the last two years when it turned from a book into a radio story.